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Show POSTAL CARDS. Somebody has remarked that aficT the first of May the salutation when friend meets friend will no longer be "Have you a postage stamp?" Instead In-stead will bo fashionable, coming in with the new styles, tho query "Have yon a sparo postal card Y" Yesterday was the date fixed for trie isBuo of tho first fivo million installment of this "now thiDg under- tho sun," and at the east no doubt tho oall was loud for those cards. Requisitions from all over tho country havo beeu rushing in upon the post office department for al sized orders from 500 upwards, New York city reoeiving one million, ond thia latter order taking precedence ovor all others, smaller cities being attended to according to their size. Salt Lake oity has ordered five thousand thou-sand of these cards as samples, and they are oxpeoted to roach hore during the middle of May. Those cards are email enough to bo carried convonicnt'y in an ordinary sized envelopo, one holding twonty-five of them very readily. Tho Washington Star of a recent date says the question was raised in that oity as to whether misdirected mis-directed or uncallod-for cards shall bo returned to the dead letter offico ns aro ordinary letters. Since to do this would rcquiro a three cent stamped envelope, whioh would be a total loss, it was docided that tho oards will not be treated as dead letters. As the number of cards tor the Salt Like office wiil be limited for some little timo, persons dc?iriDg supplies will do well to attend to it at one--. Requisitions Requisi-tions h ore a It i r made upon tho post office department wiil be filled promptly prompt-ly as received. No other postal card is authorized by law, and writing upon any other cards subjects them to letter rates of postage But card-s of miscellaneous miscel-laneous obarautcr, wholly printed, may bo mailed at one cent for two ounces or less. The postal cards havo etamps impressed upon ihcm. One cent each ia supposed to cover their coot and mail transmission, and they may be written upon with ink or pencil as most convenient. con-venient. .Of course our readers under-atand under-atand that these documents are "open letters" subject to inspection of all post officelcmployes who miy be interested inter-ested in any littlo story told thereon. As a hint to those who wih to facilitate facil-itate a loan, the New York Tribune ro-latea ro-latea this littlo anecdote that recently occurred in France. Herald readers are of course too keen to be caught io any Btoh trap. An individual sect daily several postal pos-tal cards addressed to himself, on one of whioh his inquisitive janitor read: "Let mo know when you will call for that 14tUut francs, if our carelessness careless-ness ia inexplicable. Yours. &c." Another indicated to the janitor that bin nrqwiUQtauce was in the lull tide of good luck: "Answer Yes or No. I am owaro the "girl's thou-aijds do not concern you, but you owe some respect to her family. Say distinctly if you will or will oot marry her. Immediate." Better still this one: "Mr. J , notary, requests you to oall at his othcu as a oa as possible, to acquire pofwf-ion of the property of the late Mr. Bigourdin." Astonished at the contents of this :orre3pondcnco, tho indiscreet porter tnt.'jU.U'K) francs (ilO.OW) to the in-icnious in-icnious borrower, who, of course, Bud-lenly Bud-lenly disappeared. The police were uly ioformed of tho matter, and when ho officer asked the janitor why he Lent this man his money ho foolii'ly, be aoHwered naively, "Because 1 thought he didn't need it." |